June 9, 2015—Alexandre Dossin, associate professor of piano performance and piano literature, is one of fourteen UO faculty members selected as recipients of the 2015-16 Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards in recognition of their research, teaching and leadership.

June 5, 2015—On Thursday, June 4, University of Oregon music students were treated to a full day of events featuring a legendary composer and performer. Burt Bacharach, six-time Grammy Award-winner and three-time Academy Award-winner, spent the day at the UO School of Music and Dance, engaging with students and faculty.

May 27, 2015—Idit Shner, associate professor of saxophone and jazz studies, has been presented with a University of Oregon 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award, the Thomas F. Herman Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.

May 22, 2015—On January 16, 2015, the SOMD hosted a reception at the Hilton in downtown Eugene to honor Oregon-based SOMD alumni, and to celebrate the annual conference of the Oregon Music Education Association.

May 19, 2015—SOMD alumna Alison Bjorkedal (BMus ‘03), along with her colleagues in the Los Angeles-based new music Partch Ensemble, was awarded Best Classical Compendium at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on February 8, 2015.

May 8, 2015—Think fast! Alison Kaufman, a doctoral student in the SOMD’s musicology program (far left in this photo), placed first in the University of Oregon Graduate School's Three-Minute Thesis Competition on Friday, May 1.

Through the international exchange of School of Music and Dance faculty members, students, and alumni, the UO is creating a deeper connection with communities on the continent of humanity’s birth.
The School of Music and Dance is at the forefront of demonstrating how music unites people the world over, from the 42nd parallel to the equator.

These days, alumnus Edgardo Simone, BMus ’82, MMus ’83, is a composer and a successful orchestrator of Hollywood blockbusters, but the path Simone followed to the UO from his rough-and-tumble childhood was anything but smooth—but it was certainly cinematic

After winning the 2015 Graduate Emerging Artist Award of the Department of Dance and graduating with her MFA from the UO in 2015, Katie Scherman has continued her work as an independent choreographer and dancer with BodyVox in Portland.